The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine
by Ted J. Kaptchuk
"A medicine or conscious shift in a person's behavior can resonate with the condition within a person and induce a person toward health. Also, the different layers of human life, as disparate as the corporeal, psychological, ecological, and moral, mutually interact for the same reason: their various forms of Qi resonate. Qi is the cosmic breath that unites disparate forms."
"The Chinese assume that the universe is continuously changing. Its movement is the result not of a first cause or creator, but of an inner dynamic of cyclical patterns. Just as the sun maps out four distinct seasons in its yearly round, so all biological organisms go through four seasons in a lifetime: birth, maturation, decline, and death. The constancy of the cosmos is in these patterns of change, which are regular. The cosmos itself is an integral whole, a web of interrelated things and events."